Ecuador’s state-owned oil company is beginning what officials here call the “oil project of the decade,” an effort likely to draw intense local and international ......
When Brazilian Environment Minister José Sarney Filho took office in early 1999, green advocates dismissed him as yet another product of political nepotism. He certainly doesn’t ......
Two years after Pemón Indians toppled newly built transmission towers here to protest Venezuela’s plan to send electricity to Brazil, power is flowing across the ......
The Brazilian government has agreed to grant protected status to a 49.4-million-acre (20-million-hectare) swath of Amazon rainforest, an area more than half the size of ......
Argentina has stepped up efforts to rid itself of polychlorinated biphenyls, drafting a National Plan for the Minimization and Elimination of PCBs. Unveiled in March and ......
Nicaragua has enacted a new mining law in hopes of bringing foreign investment to an industry that hasn’t seen a significant new project since the ......
About 40 people are sitting along trestle tables, tucking into huge plates of rice, beans, chicken, pork, cabbage and chuchu (a green vegetable). The ......
Alvaro Sapag has headed the legal department of Chile’s National Environment Commission (Conama) since 1998. The University of Chile-trained lawyer worked in the private sector ......
Ecuador’s state-owned oil company is beginning what officials here call the “oil project of the decade,” an effort likely to draw intense local and international ......
When Brazilian Environment Minister José Sarney Filho took office in early 1999, green advocates dismissed him as yet another product of political nepotism. He certainly doesn’t ......
Two years after Pemón Indians toppled newly built transmission towers here to protest Venezuela’s plan to send electricity to Brazil, power is flowing across the ......
The Brazilian government has agreed to grant protected status to a 49.4-million-acre (20-million-hectare) swath of Amazon rainforest, an area more than half the size of ......
Argentina has stepped up efforts to rid itself of polychlorinated biphenyls, drafting a National Plan for the Minimization and Elimination of PCBs. Unveiled in March and ......
Nicaragua has enacted a new mining law in hopes of bringing foreign investment to an industry that hasn’t seen a significant new project since the ......
About 40 people are sitting along trestle tables, tucking into huge plates of rice, beans, chicken, pork, cabbage and chuchu (a green vegetable). The ......
Alvaro Sapag has headed the legal department of Chile’s National Environment Commission (Conama) since 1998. The University of Chile-trained lawyer worked in the private sector ......